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• Massive Qi chargers for cars! https://electrek.co/2026/09/18/its-finally-here-porsche-puts-wireless-ev-charging-into-production-video/ I can see the utility of using this for slow charging. But is it really that much of a faff to plug in a cable? I wonder how perfectly aligned the car needs to be. Still, interesting to see whether this gets picked up or standardised.

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• There are moments where I wonder if I’ll run out of jokes. And then I see posts like this.
  Quoting@SecScottBessentGreat to welcome @jakepaul to the Treasury Department today. Jake’s path from content creator to entrepreneur and professional boxer is a distinctly American story. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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• The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monster

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• I wonder if at this point there couldn't be a very of MCP that is literally codemode + openapi + RAG for openapi docs instead. The reference Radius skill is just OpenAPI and it works so well.

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• I will never stop feeling extremely smug when I look around at a landscape and think “huh, I wonder why it’s like this?” and later find out that there’s a very interesting historical reason it’s like this and actually it underlies the entire history of the region.

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• “Every night I close my eyes And there is something that I visualize I hear a voice, say, ‘I love you’ I picture all things that we're gonna do And I wonder who he'll be Wonder if he'll be good to me Wonder, gosh oh gee Wonder if he'll love me forever”

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• x.comWhen an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all.

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• MastodonWhen an “honest mistake” by an insurance company is so commonplace it can be fixed with a checkbox, yet fixing it requires a paid consultant, you have to wonder whether insurance companies exist to deliver healthcare at all.

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• If you ever wonder where I get ideas for my videos that get 500k+ views it's from idiots like this:

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• worklog-web — Web-based, GitHub-backed Worklog / timesheet manager. Markdown is the source of truth.

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• If you had no college degree, were backed mostly by voters without degrees, yet claimed to be the voice of the formally educated, people would laugh. But a college grad backed by other college grads can claim to be the voice of the working class and people just accept it. Weird.

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• Boooo. I did try and get it back once. I wonder if we could still make that work. chriscoyier.net/2024/02/28/w... I’m down to find a win-win situation, DO. Call me. 🤙
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• I wonder if the call for AI to slow down happened because they asked it and claude was like you're right to push back

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• I wonder if houses are like the backrooms to bugs

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• What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder? https://t.co/9S23FZsYD5 via @NYTOpinion

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• It's going to be an interesting screen adaptation. I wonder who wil play the main character.

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• 10yo just learned about Lady Gaga by way of Weird Al. It happens! For a few years, this was the only version of Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” I’d ever heard: https://t.co/8ScXD9nbm8 The non-bluegrass version sounded very weird to me.

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• Huh, I was at Apple.com and glanced at the Mac Studio page - https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ - I notice they're explicitly pitching it for LLM on the desktop. I wonder how realistic that is… Hmm, let’s ask @simon, he’s closer to this stuff than most of us. I’m pretty convinced that irrespective of all the issues, the economics of #genAI just don’t work with the current compute infrastructure requirements. Open models and what’s left of Moore’s law could be a really big deal. #apple

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• "Multiple people now literally have the wealth of nations, or at least that of large government agencies. No wonder public policy is in shambles."

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• This is a known issue with Apple and Kickstarter and it’s very frustrating. If you backed Designed in California, go to Kickstarter, log in if you aren’t, click on your profile icon in the top left, and click Messages to get our message.

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• My favorite CarPlay feature is when it's reading a text message to me and I go to tap the "Done" button and it suddenly turns into a "Call” button underneath my finger and I have to wait for all of the animations to finish before I can actually end the call and then I wonder (a) did the person notice that I called them for a few seconds and (b) do I need to explain that now and (c) are they going to call me back now and (d) HOW DID THIS INTERFACE EVER SHIP oh my god

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• We are very close to 7% mortgage rates yet again We've now had mortgage rates >6% since late-2022 And still no housing market crash I do wonder if housing is the shock absorber for the economy if/when AI causes an economic slowdown (and rates fall)

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• 52% Across the 6 Founders Weekends this summer, 52% of the students attending, 253/484, made their first dollar within 48 hours. I wonder what percent of adult entrepreneurs make their first dollar that fast? Or ever?

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• i don't always include the periods when abbreviating "also known as", but the phrase "Aka Woden" sounded too much like the name of a really cool dance 90s hit without them. it probably still does, to…

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• Chapter 20.1: The Long Drive Three founders Seth backed have gone dark. One texted him at 3 a.m. and stopped answering. He rehearses what he will say if Marcus picks up. "You have twenty seconds to tell me if anybody is dead. Then you can hang up."

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• Whenever you are told “Trust the experts” you are better off doing the opposite. Remember when Covid “Trust the experts” led to a civilizational hoax that broke our economy and retarded our children? The AI “Trust the experts” version will make that pale in comparison. I’d encourage all of you to approach this with wonder but also a healthy dose of skepticism.

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• I think I’ve realized that GUIs, even though they have much better primitives for displaying all sorts of information and interacting with it, are also very restrictive. There’s usually only one way of doing things in a UI. You either love it or hate it. Which brings me to terminals and multiplexers. When you think about it, a terminal is basically a small GUI builder, letting you create your own environment from small, well-crafted tools that each do one thing well. So it’s no wonder people keep coming back to terminals.
  Quoting@mitchellhQuick Superlogical demo to end the week. This demo is just of the basic functionality, but I want to highlight just how FAST it is. There's a WHOLE lot more functionality already present and coming but I wanted to keep the demo short. But seriously, check out that speed. I'm showing the macOS app h…

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• Spent a good part of the day repairing my electric lawnmower. It would be easy to find someone to do small engine repair on a gas one, and it would be easy to throw out a ~8 year old mower and get a better replacement that uses the same large batteries as my chainsaw. This does make me wonder how environmentally friendly this kind of electric tool really is. Anyway, it seems to be either a hall effect sensor problem or an off balance blade that's causing the hall effect sensor to think the mower is overloaded or has hit something. Runs fine without the blade it turns out. So I'll try replacin…

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• The internet promised us access to all the world’s information. Instead, social media, algorithmic advertising and the attention economy have created a morass of truth, half-truths and lies, making it harder to know both what’s true and what people actually believe. CHOMP is trying to cut through that. Really excited to have backed Kiko and the team.
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• I think its easy to say "Simulation is a new scaling law" and treat it as marketing hyperbole, but midway along this interview you can hear me go from somewhat shitposting to very very serious. I am 2 years late to this but finally understand why @karpathy and @drfeifei backed @joon_s_pk @msbernst @percyliang et al - Smallville at the time had zero commercial applications, but if you take RSI seriously, from models automating increasingly large parts of ML research and AI engineering, the last* barrier is simulating humans and human feedback, and Simile is obviously the team to do this and al…
  Quoting@latentspacepodSimulating Humanity: 85% accurate digital twins, behavioral foundation models, social physics, & 8 billion agents https://t.co/ntIccXOr1y @simile_ai CEO @joon_s_pk explains how AI can move from predicting what people will do to simulating how to shape outcomes, why today’s frontier models still mis…

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• Love hearing @travisk call out loud what we all know. VC’s dont make or build companies but many can kill them. I used to tell investors I kept control to protect them from themselves. So many founders play the game and pretend their VC and its brand makes a difference. Can anyone remember who backed Meta or Google or Apple? Who cares! Do you think Steve Jobs needed a VC to help him build or market the Iphone?
  Quoting@howardlindzonLOLOL... such respect for venture capital Silicon Valley makes Wall Street look like the most sincere, honest, caring people.

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• I saw Atul's tweet and it made me wonder too. How many establishments are actually compliant? So we asked the FDA. Here's what they say!

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• Earlier I reached the stage of hunger where even microwaved frozen pizza bagels sound good. I baked them instead, because still retained a few scraps of reason, but still. SOUNDED good.

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• Looks like Bangalore's Metro website is built on @nextjs and running in Dev Mode. Sourcemap is exposed and I can see the dev loader at the bottom. I wonder which agency is doing this, the city is flooded with talent yet the government gave the project to someone who messed up.

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• I wonder why old trees keep dying or falling down when BMC takes such good care of them.

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• BlueskyYears ago, I predicted columnar storage would remake the landscape of observability. I thought a wave of new columnar-backed tools would displace the creaky old three pillars model with tech that is faster, easier, cheaper, better in every way. Well, I was half right.

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• x.comYears ago, I predicted that columnar storage would remake the landscape of observability tools. I thought we'd see a wave of new columnar-backed observability tools grow up to displace the old, creaky, three pillars model with tech that is faster, easier, cheaper, and better in every way. I was half right. Observability vendors, you are chasing the wrong ball. Datadog's great weakness is not their price point, it's their product. @ClickHouseDB, good job. You don't make me want to stab my eyes out. In this market landscape, that's high praise.

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• Nowadays, I often see people say they have access to unlimited tokens. Usually for work, although in response to https://t.co/BuzKs79xk5, someone from Microsoft said they have unlimited tokens for personal projects. I wonder what this means in practice. Surely there's a limit?
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• Over the last 3 months I lost 300 followers (about 10%). I wonder if these were bots. I feel like within the last year Twitter engagement has gone from quite good to almost nothing. It sometimes feels like I'm shadow banned. Has anyone noticed the same?

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• kefka — A virtual jailed shell environment for Go apps backed by an io/fs#FS.

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• jeresign instead of jeresig in Claude Code (w/ Opus) - I wonder how often this happens and how many tokens I end up burning due to this? 🫠 Pretty funny 😆

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